I love protobufs and yet they feature in about 2% of all APIs I’ve ever written.

This extreme slant on the trolly problem is baked into values and politics. Running over people is fine because it just happens, but goodness forbid a consequence for dangerous driving has negative impacts for the driver.

You can expand this to a lot more than street safety.

most people, left and right, treat traffic violence like the weather and not a specific policy choice

I went on a (Buddhist) monastery retreat this summer, and it felt like the sisters did not know how to talk about AI beyond seeing a socio-technical tidal wave coming.

I’m personally very uninterested in the culturally Christian “AI has no soul“ narrative about the technology itself, and more interested in getting to a cultural understanding about the practical impacts of things like generative AI.

Can you tell I opened Facebook?

There’s one recruiting firm that has cold contacted me and tried to make me think we were picking up an existing application process.

I try to put items like that in the front corner of my pantry cupboard, but I should really get a dedicated bowl or something to force consistency.

Also, the moon.

- Fancy modern tools don't magically solve performance bottlenecks if math or compsci fundamentals are neglected

- Reliability/productivity aren't strictly at odds (or variations thereof of good-fast false binaries)

- "Communal" responsibilities/ownership are abandoned without incentives

- Engineers are savvy about over-complicating projects to claim more innovation was needed

It’s basically a worse (sub-)medium with an upside that doesn’t really exist anymore. I get a little irritated at how film photographers index a bit heavily on stuff that’s expensive or novel vs necessarily… good.